Joseph Thai
Presidential Professor of Law
A.B., Harvard College, 1995
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1998
- Email: thai@ou.edu
Professor Joseph Thai joined the law faculty in 2003. He teaches Supreme Court decision making, First Amendment, criminal procedure, and criminal law, and writes in related areas.
Thai has served as law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens and Justice Byron R. White of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Judge David M. Ebel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Thai has practiced in the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts, where he handled criminal and civil appeals in state court, and habeas and Section 1983 litigation in federal court. Prior to joining the law faculty, Thai worked at Gable & Gotwals in Oklahoma City, where he litigated trial and appellate matters in state and federal courts and administrative agencies. He currently engages in pro bono litigation on constitutional matters.
In 2005, and again in 2008, Thai was named the outstanding faculty member of the College of Law by its students. In 2005, Thai was also named the university-wide outstanding faculty member by students across campus. In 2007, he received the President's Associates Presidential Professorship.
Publications—All links open in a new window
- John Paul Stevens, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (Macmillan 2008) (pdf, opens in a new window).
- Closing the Courthouse Doors, McClatchy-Tribune newspapers nationwide (July 2007) (pdf, opens in a new window).
- A Wild Pitch on Eavesdropping, BOSTON GLOBE A9 (Aug. 2, 2006) (offsite)
- The Law Clerk Who Wrote Rasul v. Bush: John Paul Stevens's Influence from World War II to the War on Terror, 92 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 501 (2006)
- John Paul Stevens, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES (Routledge 2006)
- Is Data Mining Ever a Search Under Justice Stevens's Fourth Amendment, 74 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 1731 (2006)
- Constitutionally Excluded Confessions: Applying America's Lessons to a Democratic Iraq, 58 OKLAHOMA LAW REVIEW 37 (2005)